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Month: January 2021

003 - MicroPython TechNotes: Gorillacell ESP32 Shield

George Bantique January 22, 2021 2 Comments

The Gorillacell ESP32 shield is intuitively designed to minimized confusion with circuit connections. For beginners, breadboards is a source of confusion so this ESP32 shield is created to prevent that. ESP32 shield extends the ESP32 pins to pin headers providing easy circuit connection of input and output devices.


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002 - MicroPython TechNotes: Introduction for Gorillacell ESP32 Dev Kit

George Bantique January 22, 2021 2 Comments

Gorillacell ESP32 development kit provides many hours of fun tinkering with an unlimited materials you can easily use. The ESP32 shield provides extension for ESP32 pins to the color coded pin headers which helps in avoiding confusion when experimenting. Color coding should be black for the grounds, red for the VCC, and yellow for the control signal pins.


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000 - MicroPython TechNotes: Unboxing Gorillacell ESP32 Development Kit

George Bantique January 22, 2021 No Comments

Recently, one of my friend from South Korea offered me this amazing collection of development kits for ESP32. It is consist of ESP32 development board, a customized Gorilla Cell ESP32 shield, and 80 pieces of input and output devices. I am sure with this kit, you will have a countless hours of fun experiments using the ESP32 as the main microcontroller. 


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Reyax MQTT with Database: Exploring RYC1001 with MicroPython | Part 2

George Bantique January 7, 2021 No Comments

Recently, I created a blog post introducing the new Reyax RYC1001 IoT cloud platform. Unlike its competitors, RYC1001 provides additional database capability on top of its MQTT server. I only use free applications available in the internet for Windows and for android. I played with it and I find it easy to use so I decided to further explore the RYC1001 but this time using actual devices to simulate a home automation.


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